Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
From ACM NewsAn edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
From ACM News
Screen Recognition Makes Apps More Accessible
Apple's Screen Recognition algorithm identifies the metadata necessary to communicate the functions of any app or Web page to the visually impaired.
From ACM News
Semantics Beats Syntax
IBM, Google, and Microsoft are all developing algorithms that understand the meaning of words.
From ACM News
DARPA's Subterranean Challenge Scores
The U.S. Defense Department agency has been sponsoring underground circuit competitions for robotic hardware systems for the last three years.
From ACM News
Bulletproofing RISC-V Cores
The RISC-V open standard instruction-set architecture can improve cybersecurity.
From ACM News
A Tool for Hardening Java Crypto
A new tool identifies cryptographic vulnerabilities in Java (and soon, in Python) automatically.
From ACM News
Towards an Unhackable Quantum Internet
Harvard University researchers achieve “a milestone along the path to a worldwide quantum Internet.”
From ACM News
Quantum Photonics Spawns Optical Age
Initial applications could include optical quantum sensors, optical quantum transistors, and optically uncrackable quantum encryption.
From ACM News
Hacking the Smart Home via the Internet of Things
A group of researchers uncovered implementation flaws in Internet of Things devices.
From ACM News
The Drive to Quantum Computing
The U.S. National Quantum Initiative will support the push towards a quantum computing infrastructure, ecosystem, and workforce.
From ACM News
Striking First to Beat Hackers at Their Own Game
Researchers can use the same covert channels hackers have taken advantage of to protect a vehicle's control systems.
From ACM News
Software-Defined Power Cuts Costs
Hyper-scale datacenters need more efficient control of their electrical use.
From ACM News
Learning to se Data Better
Using artificial intelligence to process medical sensor data can have great impact on health-related costs and outcomes.
From ACM News
3D Printing for the .S. Navy
The world's largest navy explores the use of additive manufacturing for spare parts, with an eye toward eventually building ships that way.
From ACM News
Are Human Brains Quantum Computers?
Research project could explain how memory, and the brain's biology, works.
From ACM News
Academic Supercomputer Seeks a Top 10 Ranking
A second-generation academic supercomputer aims to break into the top rankings of the world's fastest supercomputers.
From ACM News
Free Quantum Computers Online!
D-Wave and IBM offer access to supercomputing quantum computers in the cloud.
From ACM News
Paas Enables Greater Customization
Platform-as-a-Service environments foster development of custom cloud applications.12